“We’re living together” bazaar supports women’s role in development work

The charity ‘Ahl al-Sham’ initiative organization, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program [UNDP], held Monday a bazaar called “We are living together”to promote women’s handmade products and to involve them in development work.

The bazaar held in the Luxury Palace hall in Damascus comes within the program of ‘developing together’, which supports the organizations that have become unable to continue their activities after losing their headquarters in some flashpoint areas, according to the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the ‘Ahl al-Sham’ Initiative Maysaa Reslan.

She clarified that the initiative includes 80 organizations in Damascus and its suburbs, while the number of beneficiaries from food parcels monthly distributed by the organizations reached up to 16.000 persons.

The Initiative of Ahl al-Sham [Damascus people] has taught a lot of women how to make crochet, knitting and weaving in order to help them make money to be partner in building the homeland.

Besides the training courses, the organization offers services to more than 895 patients, according to Head of the initiative’s medical committee Haitham Hammami.

BasmaQaddour